Haunt of Fear #13

In "For the Love of Death!" from Haunt of Fear #13, Jo, a man consumed by envy of the attention given to the dead, hatches a macabre plan to take his place in a funeral—only to find his scheme undone by a final, unyielding wish from the corpse he sought to replace.

In "Fed Up!", a sword-swallower's marriage to her increasingly gluttonous husband takes a dark turn when she decides to teach him a lesson—literally. As he struggles to master the very act that once defined her, she leaves him trapped and helpless in the dressing room, the consequences of his excess now his only companion.

In "Minor Error!", the neighborhood boys grow suspicious of Ezra, the quiet new kid who never plays outside. When they catch his uncle in the act of draining a victim’s blood, they’re certain he’s a vampire—and that Ezra’s isolation is a cover-up. Their plan to end the threat takes a chilling turn when they discover Ezra asleep in a coffin, the blood jar beside him, and the truth far stranger than they imagined.

In the frozen silence of the Russian steppes, a sleigh carries a desperate group of travelers pursued by a pack of hungry wolves. With only two bullets left in his rifle, the officer fights to buy time as the driver makes a chilling proposal: one must be thrown to the wolves to save the rest. Tension mounts as the fate of the woman, her newborn, the old man, or the officer hangs in the balance—leaving the reader to wonder who will be sacrificed.